Creationism my ass...
Ya just gotta love science...
-- WASHINGTON -- Researchers studying Neanderthal DNA say it should be possible to construct a complete genome of the ancient hominid despite the degradation of DNA over time.Now I've probably pissed off my more religious BT brethren here... and that got me thinking.
Debate has raged for years about whether there is any relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans. Some researchers believe that Neanderthals were simply replaced by early modern humans, while others argue the two groups may have interbred.
Sequencing the genome of Neanderthals, who lived in Europe until about 30,000 years ago, could shed some light on that question.
You piss off a devout Muslim and he wants to kill your lousy infidel ass... you piss off a North American Evangelical Christian... he just wants to pray for your soul.
Just a thought.
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7 comments:
And they let women vote!
My question is why is the National Institute of Health funding this research? Last time I checked, Neanderthal medicine was like so last year...
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"Last time I checked, Neanderthal medicine was like so last year..."
ba-da-bing!!!
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Couldn't we just say that God created evolution and be done with this whole argument!?
God created the universe. How do we know His day is governed by the rotational speed of a small planet near the edge of one of many spiral and other galaxies?
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everybody should be allowed to believe whatever they want... with the proviso that they don't get to shove it down anyone elses' throat at the point of a gun.
oh yeah, that means you don't get to crap all over women, or unbelievers, too.
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"and that got me thinking."
yikes, is that what you call it ;-).
"You piss off a devout Muslim and he wants to kill your lousy infidel ass... you piss off a North American Evangelical Christian... he just wants to pray for your soul."
huh? oh, i get it, we're allowing our "thinking" to be dictated by racist stereotypes. muslims are murderous fanatics!...haha. hey, with comic gold like that, you might get to headline at open mike night for the KKK/Neo-Nazi movement. as for your latter stereotype (christians are all harmless do-gooders), you might not want to "piss off" a christian terrorist...they might blow you up too with the abortion doctors and feminists.
fact: fundamentalists of any denomination are dangerous. lets not let racial stereotypes cloud that fact.
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"canuckistanian said... you might not want to "piss off" a christian terrorist...they might blow you up too with the abortion doctors and feminists"
too right... let's stay away from stereotypes... because, as you illustrate here, there are so many better ways to capture the prevailing group dynamic.
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